I will never watch it again, and likely forget it in a week, but this is a slightly below average film. The fact that it's less than 90 minutes long definitely helps. I don't think it's good, but it was fine enough to sit through. I found to be, at the very least, a watchable enough film, with enough liveliness, ironic considering the subject matter, from the cast to make it so that I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it. It's clear that they were having a good time, even if the script didn't match their enthusiasm. The best part, as should be obvious, is the cast. The film is certainly fine to look at, it captures the time and era fairly well. The difference between the two may not be that much, but it's still leaning more towards miss. Unfortunately, in this case, they're more misses than hits. If you try enough then there will be some that hit and some that miss. It's just that the film really isn't that funny, despite really trying very hard. Perhaps more the former than the later, as this was more inconsistent than it being all over the place in terms of tone. It's a movie that, as far as I can tell, went up and down in relation to its consistency and its tonal issues. It's not like they were subtle in that dry way that the British tend to do, and it's not like it's even great comedy, but it did make me laugh at how silly these three could be at any given time. I was actually kind of surprised by how funny these three were.
The cast is certainly good, and there's some funny stuff, mostly from the police captain and his two deputies. Perhaps this is my fault, as I watched the film in two sittings, two days apart, I believe, and part of me just really couldn't get into the film. Yet, with all of its money and its technical 'wizardry', when compared to I Sell the Dead, whose budget is very obvious from looking at it, it simply lacks what I Sell.had and that is a solid script for the cast to work with. It's just that this film is simply far more stacked because of, you guessed it, its budget.
Of course, that makes it sound like I Sell the Dead didn't have a good cast, Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden and Ron Perlman are talented actors. I found that I Sell the Dead, a film with, maybe, one-tenth the budget and only half of this film's talented cast, was considerably better than this. I didn't really get a sense, one way or the other, that this film really built to much.
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